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BODO SHOW TONIGHT - LIVE VIDEO STREAM ON INTERNET The Waterboys hour-long set tonight at Parken Festival in Bodo, Norway, will be video-streamed live on the festival website. The set runs from 6pm-7pm Norwegian time, which is 5-6pm UK, 12-1pm EST and 9-10am Pacific time. To view, visit: www.parkenfestivalen.no
OUR NEW HOMEPAGE We’ve redesigned our homepage with a selection of new and vintage images of Mike Scott and The Waterboys which appear at random every time you log on (you can also use the arrows under the band’s name to view them all at your leisure). Take a look [here]
ROOM TO ROAM WEB PAGES ROOM TO ROAM was reissued on August 11th as a 2CD set with fabulous new remastered sound and 17 previously unavailable tracks. You can purchase the album [here] and check out our new Room To Roam web pages, including Mike Scott’s sleevenotes on how the record was made and the full lyrics to both CD1 and CD2 [here]. Meanwhile, we’ve spotted a printing error in the album’s booklet. On pages 22 and 23 is a photo of the entire cast - band and crew - that worked on the record at Spiddal House, with an accompanying key picture of numbered silhouettes to identify them all. Only thing is, the silhouettes aren’t numbered. To see the correct image, click [here]
TWO WATERBOYS ALBUMS FEATURED IN WORD MAGAZINE ‘ALBUM COVER ATLAS’ See if you can find ‘em....here
PICKERING FESTIVAL CANCELLED The Pickering Festival in Yorkshire, England has been cancelled due to flooding. This means the Waterboys performance on Friday 8th August, along with all the other Pickering festival performances by other acts, will NOT take place. No other Waterboys shows are affected. For further information visit: pickeringfolkfestival.theeventsoffice.co.uk
ROOM TO ROAM OUT IN SIX DAYS, SONG ON MYSPACE NOW The 2CD remastered edition of Room To Roam will be released by EMI this coming Monday, August 11th, containing the original album in improved sound plus seventeen fascinating bonus tracks selected and edited by Mike Scott and featuring the magical 1989-1990 line-up of The Waterboys, with Steve Wickham, Anthony Thistlethwaite, Sharon Shannon and others. You can listen to one of the previously unreleased songs, Sunny Sailor Boy, on our myspace page [here], and pre-order the album from our online store [here]
ENGLISH ‘CELTIC ROOTS’ FESTIVAL ADDED - 14TH SEPT The Waterboys will play the Celtic Roots Festival at Catton Hall, Walton On Trent, South Derbyshire on Sunday September 14th. This looks like being the only full-band Waterboys show in England this year. Support acts are Hothouse Flowers and Biblecode Sundays. Saturday’s bill features Van Morrison, Amy MacDonald and Seth Lakeman. Tickets priced £35.00 (one day) or £70 (both days) are available [here]. Please note ticket prices will increase in mid August.
WATERBOYS WILL NOT NOW PLAY AT ELECTRIC PICNIC The Waterboys are sorry to announce they will no longer be playing the Electric Picnic festival in Ireland on Friday 29 August due to contractual problems. The band agreed a deal in good faith with POD, the festival promoters. However, after having made press announcements and advertising The Waterboys on their festival website, the promoters substantially reduced the agreed fee to a figure that didn’t make economic sense and then declined any further negotiation. It is with much regret therefore that The Waterboys' appearance has been cancelled - and the band hopes fans who have bought tickets will understand that circumstances were beyond their control.
AUSTRIAN SHOW WITH NEIL YOUNG, 17th AUGUST The Waterboys have been added to the bill for Neil Young’s show at the Lovely Days Festival, Festivalgelanda, Wiesen, Burgenland, Austria on August 17 (Sunday). It’s the Waterboys’ first Austrian show in eight years, and second gig with Neil this summer. Tickets are available from 0043 196096 or online from: here Tickets €52 for the day. Other bands playing include Adam Green and Wishbone Ash. Further info: here
ROOM TO ROAM VIDEO UP ON MYSPACE PAGE Jacques Coetzer’s film of Mike and musicians and singers from the town of Huntly, Scotland performing Room To Roam has just been posted on our myspace page. To view the video, click here. We’ve also posted the soundtrack of the song on our myspace MP3 player.
NEW PHOTOS ON MYSPACE We’ve uploaded a motherlode of new photos at our myspace page and to make viewing them easier, we’ve divided them into seven different albums. Alongside live photos, artwork, vintage and miscellaneous photos, you can now view a set of twenty pictures from the recent Huntly Room To Roam project, and an extended selection of cartoons drawn by various Waterboys over the years. To view the photo albums you must be logged into myspace.
MIKE APPEARING WITH CALI AT FRANCOFOLIES FESTIVAL, 21st JULY Mike will guest with his friend the French star Cali at the chanson festival Francofolies, in Spa, Ardennes, Belgium on Monday 21st July. Mike (and Steve Wickham) previously guested with Cali at shows in Paris this spring and Mike collaborated on two songs on Cali’s recent number one album L’Espoire. For further festival info click here
ROOM TO ROAM - REMASTER IS OUT 11TH AUGUST The remastered 2CD version of Room To Roam will be released by EMI on 11th August. The beautiful package includes new sleevenotes by Mike Scott, extended track-by-track musician credits and previously unseen photographs as well as 17 bonus songs. CD1 is the original album featuring the Celtic line-up of the band: Mike Scott, Steve Wickham, Anto Thistlethwaite, Sharon Shannon, Trevor Hutchinson, Colin Blakey and Noel Bridgeman. CD2 contains 17 bonus tracks from 1989-91, including Sunny Sailor Boy, made popular by Luka Bloom, and storming live versions of The Raggle Taggle Gypsy and Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants. The full tracklist is:
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MIKE'S HUNTLY 'ROOM TO ROAM' VENTURE LATEST Mike has now completed the recent 'Room To Roam' project with the people of Huntly in Scotland and South African artist Jacques Coetzer. The song, performed by an ensemble of 29 singers and musicians led by Mike has been filmed and we will soon post the video on the Waterboys myspace page. Meanwhile you can hear the soundtrack recording and read about the project here
MIKE, STEVE & ANTO REUNITED ON SHARON SHANNON RECORDING Mike Scott, Steve Wickham and Anto Thistlethwaite were reunited last week for recording session in Galway for a future Sharon Shannon album. In Sharon’s own studio they did a version of the Waterboys classic Saint And Angels. The album, a collection of collaborations by Sharon and other musicians, is expected to come out in 2009.
MAGPIE - NEW ALBUM FROM STEVE’S ‘OTHER’ BAND, NO CROWS
No Crows, the Sligo four-piece band that features Steve Wickham on fiddle, have a new album called Magpie, recorded in the west of Ireland earlier this year. It will be available online through www.cdbaby.com from July 8th, and from late July from iTunes and UK & Irish record shops. Magpie is on Crow records, distributed via Whirling Discs. The band will play a launch show at Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland on July 8th at 9pm. Tickets priced €15 are available from: www.ticketsonline.ie or tel. 00 353 71 9170431. See also: www.myspace.com
NORWEGIAN FESTIVAL BONANZA! The Waterboys have been confirmed for three more Norwegian festivals, and the date of their show at the Parkenfestivalen in Bodo has been changed. Here are the details: Sat 5 July: Skiippagura Festival, TANA, Lapland, Norway. Tickets: www.skiippagurra.no Sat 2 Aug: Lost Weekend Festival, BERGEN, Norway. Tickets: (tel) +47 815 33133 or: www.billetservice.no Further info from: www.lost-weekend.net Fri 22 Aug: Dampskibsbrygga, FREDRIKSTAD, Norway. Tickets: (tel) +47 815 33 133, or: www.billetservice.no Sat 23 Aug (CHANGE OF DATE): Parkenfestivalen, BODO, Norway. Tickets: (tel) +47 75549010: www.parkenfestivalen.no The Waterboys also play at Canalstreet Festival, ARENDAL on July 24 and Union Scene, DRAMMEN on Aug 21.
ROOM TO ROAM - REMASTER UPDATE Mike has completed the remastering of the Waterboys 1990 album Room To Roam and it will be released by EMI this Autumn, date to be confirmed. It is being reissued as an EMI Collectors’ Edition with a bonus CD containing a whopping 17 extra tracks including The Wyndy Wyndy Road, Sunny Sailor Boy, Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants and A Song For The Life. As soon as we get fuller details we’ll let you know.
HUNTLY - WHAT HAPPENED On Sunday 1st June Mike performed Room To Roam in the town square, Huntly, Scotland with an ensemble of over two dozen singers and musicians, including trombones, five fiddlers, drums, bass, sax, mandolin and accordion. Steve Wickham turned up unexpectedly to join the fiddle section. The performance was part of the annual Entertainment On The Square festival. Lyric sheets were handed round the crowd so people could sing along with the lyric, written by Huntly’s most famous son, George MacDonald, and the song was performed twice. Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond was in attendance. Mike and the ensemble also filmed a special performance of the song in a Huntly hotel ballroom on May 29th and as soon as we receive a copy we’ll be posting it on the band’s myspace page.
MIKE SCOTT COLLABORATION ON NEW SHARON SHANNON COMPILATION
Mike and former Waterboy Sharon Shannon are reunited on the track A Song Of The Rosy Cross on Sharon’s new compilation The Galway Girl, just released in Ireland and currently number one on the Irish album chart. The track, originally on the multi-artist 1997 album Now And In Time To Be, features as its lyric a poem by W.B. Yeats. All of us at mikescottwaterboys.com send our condolences and thoughts to Sharon on the death last month of her long-term partner Leo Healy.
WATERBOYS PLAY SHOW WITH NEIL YOUNG IN HOLLAND The Waterboys have been invited to join Neil Young’s bill at BosPop in the Netherlands on Friday 11th July. The band will play for an hour on the main stage at 20.45 - 21.45, immediately before Neil. The last time The Waterboys played with Neil was at the Fleadh in London, 2001. “It was an honour then and it’s an honour now,” commented Mike Scott, “Neil brings with him a sense of meaning, a cocktail of ethical authority and natural wildness, that overlights every event he plays. It’s a privilege to share a stage with him.” Tickets are available from: www.ticketmaster.nl from €74. Festival website: www.bospop.nl
PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL IN AUGUST The Waterboys will play a show at the Allgarve Festival in Faro, Portugal, on Monday 11th August. Venue is Campo de Raguebi, Vilamoura. Tickets are available from: www.ticketline.pt price: €30. Festival website: www.allgarve.pt
MIKE COLLABORATES WITH THE TOWN OF HUNTLY Mike Scott is involved in a project for the Scottish town of Huntly, birthplace of Scottish novelist George MacDonald. Twenty years ago Mike set MacDonald’s poem Room To Roam to music and used it as the title of the 1990 Waterboys’ album. A few months ago Huntly artist-in-residence Jacques Coetzer asked Mike to help turn Room To Roam into the town’s anthem. Mike has been working with local musicians and singers on a communal version of the song to be performed at Huntly Community Council’s Entertainment On The Square event on Sunday 1st June. The ten-minute performance will be part of the day-long community festival and will feature Mike. We asked Mike how it sounds and he replied: “Room To Roam is amazing with a choir and a big band, like a mad carousel of music, and it’s great fun doing it with MacDonald’s own townspeople”. The project is being run in connection with Deveron Arts and Aberdeenshire Towns Partnership Huntly.
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITY BY STEVE Steve Wickham will join Sligo writer Dermot Healy in a recitation and performance in Teach Ban Nua Art Gallery, by Drumcliffe Church, Sligo, on Saturday May 10th at 2.30pm, as part of the Bealtaine Festival.
KISS THE WIND TRACKS NOW AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY As of this morning, Monday 5th May, all the tracks on the exclusive Waterboys download album KISS THE WIND are available for individual download. You can link to the album here
KISS THE WIND RELEASED TODAY & ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN Our new website store is live NOW, set up and run in collaboration with top online retailer Townsend Records. The new download-only album, KISS THE WIND, exclusive to our store, is released today and can be purchased here. Plus, all Waterboys CDs from the first album through to 2007’s Book Of Lightning are available from our store. KISS THE WIND features 16 rare or previously unreleased tracks selected by Mike Scott. Highlights include many never before heard songs plus Mike's demo of On My Way To The Big Light, an alternative Let It Happen, live versions of The Stolen Child and Jagger/Richards' Wild Horses and many many more. For the first week only Kiss The Wind is available bundled with extra track-by-track notes by Mike. From next Monday, May 5th, it will be available by individual track or bundled, but without the extra notes. The album costs £7.99. Individual tracks will retail for 79p. Samples of three tracks can be heard now on our myspace page. Kiss The Wind will not be available on physical CD and can not be purchased from any other digital or high street retailer. For full tracklisting see below the cover artwork.
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Kiss The Wind Click here for the store front page We have opened a blog thread on our myspace page where you can give feedback about the album. Check it out here.
TWO NORWEGIAN SHOWS IN AUGUST The Waterboys have added two shows in Norway in August. These are full band performances like all the shows this Summer except Pickering Folk Festival. 21 Aug: Union Scene, DRAMMEN. Tickets from Union Scene Café and www.unionscene.no Price: NOK 375 + box office fee NOK 10 22 Aug: Parkenfestivalen, BODø. This is a headline and tickets are available from www.parkenfestivalen.no or +47 75549010 (Bodø Kulturhus). One day passes cost NOK 650.
MIKE HAS AN ARTICLE IN NEW ISSUE OF KINDRED SPIRIT MAGAZINE Mike has contributed an article to the May/June edition of UK holistic magazine, Kindred Spirit. The piece is titled Early Morning Meditation, and the issue goes on sale Thursday 24th April.
CALI - WHAT HAPPENED Mike and Steve guested with their friend, top French singer Cali, at Zenith, Paris, 15 & 16 April. For a full account check out Mike’s blog here
STRANGE BOAT IN THE IRISH CHARTS The new version of Strange Boat, recorded by Mike Scott, singer Eleanor Shanley and various friends peaked in the Irish singles charts at number 16. Meanwhile former Waterboy Sharon Shannon, as well as playing on Strange Boat, is number one in Ireland for the second week with Galway Girl, her collaboration with Mundy. Congratulations Sharon!
STRANGE BOAT SINGLE - NOW ON ITUNES The new version of Strange Boat, sung by Eleanor Shanley with backing by Mike Scott, Sharon Shannon and others, was released in Ireland on Friday 4th April. The version of the Waterboys classic features Mike on guitar, keyboards and sound effects. The single is available from Irish record shops and also from iTunes - click ‘power search’ and enter ‘Strange Boat’ in the title box and ‘Shanley’ in the artist box and the single will appear, available for immediate download. The single is also available here
WATERBOYS CONFIRMED FOR ELECTRIC PICNIC, IRELAND The Waterboys have been added to the bill of the Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co Laois, Ireland, and will perform at 7.30pm on Friday 29th August. Tickets are available here
PICKERING FESTIVAL TICKETS Tickets for the Pickering Festival, at which Mike, Steve and Richard will give an acoustic performance on Friday 8th August, are available now from here
UK AUGUST FESTIVALS: PICKERING AND TARTAN HEART The Waterboys have been confirmed for two UK festivals in August: Fri 8 Aug: Pickering Folk Festival, Pickering Showground, Yorkshire. This is an acoustic 3-man show, featuring Mike Scott, Steve Wickham & Richard Naiff. Tickets not on sale yet. As soon as we receive details of how to purchase, we’ll let you know. Sat 9 August: Belladrum Festival, Tartan Heart 2008, by Beauly, Inverness-shire. This, like all the other previously announced 2008 Waterboys shows, is a full-band performance. Tickets: £80.00 (weekend), £50.00 (Saturday) from: www.ticketmaster.co.uk or www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
MIKE ON IRISH TV THIS FRIDAY EVENING Mike will appear on The Late Late Show, RTE Ireland, broadcast Friday evening April 4th at 9.30pm, playing guitar with vocalist Eleanor Shanley plus Sharon Shannon and Alec Finn. The ensemble will perform the Waterboys’ classic Strange Boat in aid of the Organ Donation project of the same name. The show will be archived here
RETURN TO PEACE AND LOVE FESTIVAL, SWEDEN The Waterboys will play again this year at the Peace And Love Festival in Borlange, Sweden, on the evening of June 27th, after their successful appearance last year. Other artists performing include The Sex Pistols, Humanzi and Hanoi Rocks. Tickets cost 1195 SEK (no camping) for the whole 3 day event or 1295 SEK (with camping). For more info on the festival and how to get tickets, click here.
FISHERMAN’S BLUES IN SCOTTISH TOURIST ADVERT Fisherman’s Blues features in a new advert for the Scottish Tourist Board, currently being shown at cinemas in England. It’s very unusual for a Waterboys song to be approved for use in an advert and Mike Scott said yes to this one because the advert is for Scotland. Watch it here.
MULTI-ARTIST VERSION OF STRANGE BOAT FOR IRISH CHARITY SINGLE A new version of the Waterboys classic Strange Boat will be released in Ireland on April 4 to raise funds for organ donation. The record, on the Daisydiscs label, features Mike Scott on guitar, keyboards & effects (but not vocals), singers Eleanor Shanley and Eddi Reader, bouzouki player Alec Finn, who guested on the Fisherman’s Blues album, and former Waterboy Sharon Shannon on accordion & whistle. The record will be available from www.daisydiscs.com and the ensemble, including Mike, will perform Strange Boat on Irish TV’s Late Late Show on Friday, 4th April. On the same date a new website www.strangeboat.org will be launched to promote organ donation.
SHE TRIED TO HOLD ME (ACOUSTIC) AVAILABLE ON NEW WXPN ALBUM The Waterboys’ acoustic version of She Tried To Hold Me, from an August radio session in Philadelphia, is included on WXPN’s album Live At The World Cafe, Vol 25: Quarter Notes. The CD can be bought at Philadelphia record shops or by pledging a donation to help fund the radio station. For details visit www.xpn.org Other artists on the album include Suzanne Vega, Josh Ritter & Flight Of The Conchords.
TICKET INFO FOR CANALSTREET FESTIVAL, NORWAY, JULY 24 Tickets for The Waterboys appearance on July 24 at the Canalstreet Festival, Arendal Norway are 540 NK available from: www.arendalkulturhus.no or by telephone from +47 37006060. For more info click: www.canalstreet.no
WATERBOYS PLAY FESTIVAL IN SOUTH-EAST SPAIN The Waterboys will headline at The Mediatic Festival in LA NUCIA, Alicante, Spain on 17 May 2008. Tickets, price €30 (one day) or €50 (two days) are available from www.mediaticfestival.com
DATE FOR CANALSTREET FESTIVAL, NORWAY We can now confirm that the date for the Waterboys’ previously announced headline appearance at the Canalstreet Jazz and Blues Festival in Arendal, Norway is Thursday July 24. Other acts including Jeff Healey and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Tickets are available from www.canalstreet.no
NEW BLOGS CONTAINING UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS Mike has been uploading some of his unpublished writings from the 1980s and 90s in his blog on myspace. These include previously unseen poems and unused lyrics to some of the Waterboys’ greatest songs. Click here to check ‘em out
CALI’S ‘L’ESPOIRE IS NUMBER ONE IN FRANCE Cali’s new album L’Espoire, including collaborations with Mike Scott, is number one in the French albums chart. We congratulate Cali on his success! One of the Cali and Mike collaborative tracks, List Of Lies, available only on the special edition version of L’Espoire, is currently rocking on The Waterboys myspace player. To hear it click here
WATERBOYS RETURN TO SWEDEN’S PEACE AND LOVE FESTIVAL The Waterboys will play again this year at the Peace & Love Festival in Borlange, Sweden. The festival is held this year from 23-28 June and other acts include the Sex Pistols and Suzanne Vega. We don’t have a date yet for the Waterboys appearance, but will announce it as soon as we receive details. For more info on the festival, visit www.peaceandlove.se
NEW DATES IN PORTUGAL AND GERMANY The Waterboys are confirmed for the following full band shows:
CALI ALBUM 'L'ESPOIR' RELEASED TODAY Waterboys' friend Bruno 'Cali' Caliciuri releases his new album, 'L'Espoir' today, on Virgin France. Mike Scott features on two songs: 'Pas Le Guerre' and - on the first edition of the CD only - 'A List Of Lies', both co-written by Cali and Mike. For further info on Cali and the album visit here
MIKE SCOTT CONTRIBUTES TO NEW ALBUM BY FRENCH SINGER CALI Mike has contributed vocals to two tracks on L’Espoir, the new album by top French singer Cali, released by EMI/Virgin France on 4th February. Both Mike and Steve Wickham have been friends with Cali for several years, and Steve played fiddle on his last album, Menteur. On L’Espoir Mike contributes a spoken word section (in English) to the song Pas De Guerre, and sings co-lead vocals on the bonus track A List Of Lies, available only with the first pressing of the album. Both songs were written by Cali and Mike. Says Mike: “Cali is a true rock and roller, a troubadour, a chansonnier. It’s a thrill to contribute to his album.” For further info visit: here
ROOM TO ROAM - REMASTERED VERSION IS COMING The fifth Waterboys’ album, 1990’s Room To Roam, is being prepared for remastering and reissue by EMI during 2008. Like the recent remasters of This Is The Sea and Fisherman’s Blues, it will be issued as a 2CD set, the second CD comprising previously unissued material recorded during the same era as the original album. Mike Scott is currently selecting tracks for inclusion. As soon as we have more details and a release date we’ll let you know.
CELTIC CONNECTIONS - WHAT HAPPENED Mike appeared at the gala opening of the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow on 16th January, sharing the stage with Julie Fowlis, Sharon Shannon, Luka Bloom, Karine Polwart, Kate Rusby, John McCusker, Karan Casey, Damien Dempsey and many other artists. The sold out concert, titled Common Ground and held at the Royal Concert Hall, included Mike’s performance of two unreleased songs, The Wedding and The Wyndy Wyndy Road (a new lyric to a tune by Scottish musician Phil Cunningham). For the encore the whole ensemble performed Sunny Sailor Boy, with lead vocals by Luka Bloom and Mike, and Mike’s rearrangement of the Scottish classic Will Ye No’ Come Back Again?, set to the air of the great Irish song Mo Gile Mear. To read reviews click here and here.
STEVE WICKHAM GUESTS ON NEW THEA GILMORE ALBUM Steve plays fiddle on The Lower Road, the closing track on Thea Gilmore’s new album Liejacker, released March 31st on Fulfill Records. Thea is an old friend of The Waterboys; she supported on the band’s 2006 UK tour and two songs on her last album, Harpo’s Ghost, were co-written with Mike Scott. As well as featuring Steve, The Lower Road has guest vocals by Joan Baez. For further info visit: here
HAPPY CHRISTMASWATERPEOPLE! - 'HIGHERBOUND' DOWNLOAD ON MYSPACE NOW As a Christmas gift to Waterpeople everywhere we've added the legendary but never released song Higherbound to our myspace player. It will be available there for download till January 1st. The version was recorded live at an acoustic Waterboys show in Ireland a few years ago, and you can listen to it and download now. Click here to access, and Happy Christmas / holidays / Hannukah / Solstice / season to you!
NEW BLOG/FICTION STORY ON MYSPACE Mike has posted a new blog on the Waterboys myspace page which links to a humorous fictional story, edited from the Waterboys forum. To access click here
WATERBOYS SPANISH FESTIVAL SHOW IN JANUARY The Waterboys will play at Actuel 08, held in Logrono, Spain, on Sunday Jan 6th. The concert is held at Palacio de Deportes, Logrono, at 7.30pm with support from American band Devotchka. The Waterboys will be onstage at 9.30pm. Drummer Jeremy Stacey, who played on the Waterboys’ albums A Rock In The Weary Land and Book Of Lightning, will stand in for Damon Wilson who is on holiday in Australia. Tickets are available on 22 December from: (+34) 902 33 22 11 or www.servicaixa.com or in person at Oficina de Turismo de El Espolón. Further information here
FIRST SUMMER 2008 FESTIVAL SHOW CONFIRMED The first Waterboys festival appearance for Summer 2008 has been confirmed. It is a show at the Canalstreet Festival in Arendal, south Norway, held between 23-26 July. We don’t know which date The Waterboys will play on, but as soon as get more info we’ll let you know.
SHE TRIED TO HOLD ME - ON WXPN COMPILATION Philadelphia radio station WXPN will include the band's acoustic version of She Tried To Hold Me on their compilation CD XPN: Live AT The World Cafe - Vol #25, to be released in February 2008. Copies will be able direct from the radio station during on air fundraisers, and also from www.xpn.org. Other artists featured include Cold War Kids, Fionn Regan, Martin Sexton, Thurston Moore, Jose Gonzalez, Sea Wolf.
MIKE’S NORWEGIAN TV PERFORMANCE ON MYSPACE A seven minute film of Mike performing In The Beginning Was Love and You In The Sky with the One People band on the TV show Good Morning Norway has just been uploaded to our myspace page. Click here to view
NEW MIKE SCOTT WEBLOGS ON MYSPACE Mike has written a couple more blogs since the end of the Waterboys’ tour - Early Morning Meditation (23 Nov) and A Dream (3 Dec) and they are available to read here, along with all the blogs from the tour itself. You can subscribe to Mike’s blog from here. (Note: you must be a myspace member to subscribe)
NEW PHOTOS UPLOADED ON MYSPACE We’ve recently uploaded over twenty additional photos and cartoons to the band’s myspace page, including shots from the just finished European and North American tour. Click here to view
COVERS WATCH Some recent covers of Waterboys songs include: Fisherman's Blues by Jaime RT (Canada) on 'Spark' (Dog My Cat Records)
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MIKE TO PLAY AT CELTIC CONNECTIONS FESTIVAL, GLASGOW, JAN 16th Mike is one the special guests at the all-star opening concert at 2008's Celtic Connections in Glasgow on January 16th. A veteran of four out of the previous fourteen Celtic Connections festivals, Mike will be joined on the bill by fellow Scots singers Kris Drever, Karine Polwart and Julie Fowlis, Scottish musicians including John McCusker, James Mackintosh and Ewan Vernel, Irish artists including Sharon Shannon, Luka Bloom, Damien Dempsey and Michael McGoldrick, and English singer Kate Rusby and other guests to be announced on the night. Mike has played with several of the other musicians before, including John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick and former Waterboy Sharon Shannon at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival, so expect some exciting ensemble performances. The concert will be held at the Main Auditorium, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Tickets are on sale now, price £20 & £28 from www.celticconnections.com
WOODSTOCK ACOUSTIC SHOW BROADCAST DATE The 3-man Waterboys show recorded at the Colony Café in Woodstock, New York on August 31st will be broadcast on WDST Radio on Thursday 22 November at 10PM EST. To listen visit: www.wdst.com and click ‘Listen Online’ at the top of the page.
CONCERT ANNOUNCED FOR 16 NOVEMBER ISN'T HAPPENING A show at Westminster Central Hall, London on Friday November 16th, apparently featuring The Waterboys, has been announced in this week's edition of Time Out, the London what's on guide. We can confirm this concert will NOT be happening. A concert on this date, as part of the Be The Change international conference, was under discussion, but was not finalised. The Waterboys have just finished their North American tour and will be playing no more shows in 2007.
WATERBOYS LIVE AT CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL ON BBC4 TONIGHT The Waterboys feature tonight in the first of a series of BBC4 programs on the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival. An interview with Mike Scott will be shown, and the band's live performance of 'Raggle Taggle Gypsy' featuring guest Sharon Shannon on accordion. The program airs on BBC4 at 8:30pm, Friday 2nd November. The fourth program in the series will feature the band's version of 'This Land Is Your Land' with Steve Earle and other guests, to be shown on 23rd November. More details can be found here.
IN THE BEGINNING WAS LOVE - FREE DOWNLOAD Mike's Norwegian single with One People, the beautiful In The Beginning Was Love, is available as a free download now from the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet. Click here
VIEW TV PERFORMANCES OF 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS LOVE' & 'YOU IN THE SKY' The film of Mike’s live performance on Norwegian TV of In The Beginning Was Love, with Noora Noor and the One People band, and You In The Sky with keyboard player Anders Hunstad, can be accessed online. Click here. Then click on the ‘God Morning Norge’ (’Good Morning Norway’) icon at the foot of the page. Next click on ‘Musikk’ and a selection of recent [performances will appear in a scrollbar. Mike’s performances of both In The Beginning Was Love and You In The Sky will appear as thumbnails.
MIKE’S INTERVIEW WITH AMPLIFIER An interview with Mike has just been published by online indie magazine Amplifier. Access it here
NEW VIDEO UPLOADED AT OUR MYSPACE PAGE We've just uploaded a new video, GLASTONBURY FRAGMENTS, shot by and featuring new music by Waterboys fiddler Steve Wickham. The video is a collage of images filmed by Steve while driving through the Glastonbury Festival this summer. It is accompanied by Steve's recording of a classical music piece - Arvo Part's great 'Spiegel Im Spiegel', re-arranged for the unlikely but beautiful pairing of banjo and harmonica. It's available for viewing now, click here.
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